Thursday, February 12, 2009

CTL Open License

The Creative Commons License has been used by many institutions and faculty members, such as Stanford Law, Harvard Law, Yale University, and MIT in an effort to share their educational resources with others. This license is recognized throughout the world and allows works to be openly shared and modified in a way that these educational resources can be accessed by others.

The Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike (by- NC SA) license is defined as providing users the freedom to share and to remix the work under the conditions that

1. Attribution
If individuals choose to use or remix materials created at Brigham Young University Center for Teaching and Learning, they must give proper attribution to the original BYU Center for Teaching and Learning and the faculty author(s). Please use the following citation format:

Brigham Young University Center for Teaching and Learning, [Name], [OER Title]. http://ctl.byu.edu (Accessed [Date]). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

2. Non-Commercial
They may not use this work for commercial purposes. This means that they may not sell, profit from, or commercialize this work or derivatives of it.

3. Share Alike
If they alter, transform, or build upon this work, they may distribute the resulting work only under the same license as this one.

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